The
stench of death hanging over protest centers in the Arab world is more
than matched by the rank hypocrisy befouling Washington and the lesser
capitals of Western Empire. There is, however, not the slightest allusion
to “hypocrisy,” in the imperial media. The “H” word is
not to be used with respect to Obama or the other lords of Empire, even
though it is as obvious as the proverbial nose on one’s face; the
censorship in the mass media is holding.

Consider
it. The Western powers have now launched a full-scale military
assault on Moammar Qaddafi’s Libya, never a reliable “partner”
of the West. First there were denunciations and demonization of
Qaddafi following the Libyan uprising in the East, then sanctions, then
the attack. Ostensibly, the attack is to “protect” the
Libyan people from the hand of Qaddafi. But is such a rationale
even remotely credible?

Look at other events happening on the very same weekend the attacks
began. In Bahrain Shia protesters by the score are being gunned
down by the Sunni police of the Al Khalifa “royal family,” sometimes
killing the protesters like animals with hunting rifles. They
are joined by the tanks of the Saudi “royals,” the same Saudi Arabia
whence came the majority of the perpetrators of 9/11. There are no American
cruise missiles aimed at the Saudi tanks and no threats from the Western
powers to stop the carnage of the thugs ruling Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
What comes from the U.S.? No denunciation, no demonization, no
sanctions, no attack.

In
Saudi Arabia itself Al-Jazeera tells us: “The ban on public demonstrations
(throughout the country) comes amid media reports of a huge mobilization
of Saudi troops in Shia-dominated provinces in order to quell any possible
uprising…. 10,000 security personnel are being sent to the region
by road, clogging highways into Dammam and other cities.” And
in Riyadh: “Several protesters were arrested in Saudi Arabia on Sunday
at a demonstration demanding the release of thousands of prisoners,
held captive for years without trial. They were among dozens of
men and women who tried to push their way into Riyadh’s interior ministry
building, which was fortified with up to 2,000 special forces and 200
police vehicles, according to the Associated Press news agency. ‘We
have seen at least three or four police vehicles taking people away,”
said an activist there who declined to be named. ‘Security forces
have arrested around 15 people. They tried to go into the ministry to
go and ask for the freedom of their loved ones.’” But the US sponsors no UN resolutions about
the “Right to Protect” in Saudi Arabia. No denunciation, no demonization,
no sanctions, no attack.

Then
there is Yemen, another U.S. ally, where today the Ali Abdullah Saleh,
the country’s “president” for 32 years, is massacring his people
by the score. In response there is nothing more than a muffled
call for “maximal restraint” by Obama and company. No denunciation,
no demonization, no sanctions, no attack.

Or
regard the spectacle of Gaza where Apartheid Israel is again launching
a bombing campaign on a besieged and helpless population. Not
a peep of protest from the U.S. No denunciation, no demonization, no
sanctions, no attack.

All
that is just this weekend. But behold the events of recent weeks
Let us not forget Egypt where hundreds or thousands of unarmed protesters
were slaughtered while the U.S. in the person of Joe Biden and others
cautioned that “president” for 41 years and U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak,
was not a dictator. Hillary Clinton defended him as a personal
friend of hers and her family. This is the same Mubarak, whose
police tormented the entire Egyptian population to the point that virtually
everyone knew someone beaten or tortured. This is the same Mubarak,
whose prisons always had room to torture CIA victims transported there
from around the world, an endless cargo of “extraordinary renditions.
Mubarak killed and killed with guns, goons and helicopters before he
fell. And from the U.S.? No denunciation, no demonization,
no sanctions, no attack.

The
failure of the Egyptian army to join in the slaughter, apparently for
fear of being on the losing side, was the sole reason the slaughter
ended. And now the same army, consulting interminably with the
US, is working a counter-revolution in that hapless country. Whether
it will prevail against the people is anyone’s guess, but there is
no doubt that the US is working overtime to turn back the clock and
shackle Egypt to a new model of the old imperial harness.

This
is a small sample. Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia and other U.S. allies
could be added to the list of those perpetrating endless atrocities
against their people for many decades. And from the U.S.?
No denunciation, no demonization, no sanctions, no attack.

I
conclude with the caveat that I am not holding up Gadhafi as a model.
What goes on in Libya I cannot tell at a distance. But as Justin
Raimondo at Antiwar.com, drawing on the testimony of Dartmouth professor
Diederik Vandewalle, an expert on Libya, has noted, the rebellion in Libya seems
to be one of the east versus west of the country, a return to old tribal
boundaries. That
is quite different from Egypt where the demand is for development and
democracy. Is there anything unique about Libya other than its
disloyalty to the West? I can think of only one other thing
which distinguishes it from Egypt or various other African dictatorships.
Libya has a Human
Development Index which
is the highest
in all of Africa.
In fact it puts Libya in the same league as the developed nations of
Europe. Certainly man does not live by bread alone although a
bit helps. But it would seem that Libyans need less protection
than the many U.S. Arab allies, which not only brutally oppress their
people but also impoverish them.

Actually I have no more appetite to hear about american support for these regimes. America has to change fundamental games of the rule to support public then you can achieve in the long term otherwise these brutal regimes will come and go america will be cursed.
Justice is in american society small written by all the institutions and if then will be america but in other countries they will commit only attrocities which means downfall of america.

liveload

Again we run into the "values" vs. "interests" foreign policy paradigm. We need to realize that our interventions only serve to change the bank routing numbers. The torture prisons, rape rooms, death squads, secret police, etc…they haven't gone anywhere. They were never going anywhere. Our "values" don't make billions of dollars for defense contractors. Our "interests" do. We need to redefine what our interests are.

Dan

Amazing – when America or the est intervenes they are Hypocritical, when they do not they are hypocritical….the tone of this article is simply hate for the west. Are you saying you want the US to intervene in all situations or none or just not pick and choose… Just for a comparison – there were a few dozen people killed in Yemin, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia combined. Your friend Gadaffi slaughtered 1000's before the west decided to help the protesters from being bombed by planes. Also strange Syria also started to murder protesters – there you dont seem to say "No denunciation, no demonization, no sanctions, no attack." and they are anything but a friend of the West…….

VietnamWarVet

Stalin – the most brutal murdering dictator of the 20th century – he was our 'ally'.
The Shah of Iran – a brutal dictator – our ally – the CIA disposed the freely elected premier of Iran because (foolish man) he thought that Iran should share in some of its own oil wealth.
Saddam – Donald Rumsfeld shaking his hand – he was our ally. Poor man wanted Euro dollars instead of US dollars for his oil.
Most of the 9/11 terrorists came from our ally Saudi Arabia which promotes the most violent anti-Christian and anti-West radical Islam.
Israel murders Palestinians with weapons supplied by the US.
What of the tens of thousands Iraqis that the US has killed in its illegal invasion of that country.
And in Afghanistan – aren't we nice – we apologize for all of the children we are killing.
A cowardly Congress filled with TRAITORS to the US should IMPEACH Obama and remove him from office – instead – the Congress approves of the killing we are doing in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan – a Congress owned by AIPAC and Israel!
Shame on America. Shame on the American people for NOT rebeling against its corrupt government!